Signs of Geek
At 6 AM, there were four people lined up already outside the AT&T store, waiting for the new iPhone. Three had camp chairs, the fourth was squatted down, banging away on his laptop. Hope he's got a long-life battery.
And I am proud to say that I am JUST geeky enough to get today's www.xkcd.com/599/ without peeking at Wikipedia. Paul Erdos was one of the most prolific authors in the field of mathematics in the last century. He also co-authored many, many papers, and among mathematicians, to have an 'Erdos number' > 0 meant you had co-authored a paper with him. Once he died, the Erdos number was frozen, so, if the dead come back, any REAL mathematician would drop everything to write a paper and rush it to his grave, to increment his Erdos number. Fbomb the Second Coming and the Horsemen and all, this is IMPORTANT! :)
And I am proud to say that I am JUST geeky enough to get today's www.xkcd.com/599/ without peeking at Wikipedia. Paul Erdos was one of the most prolific authors in the field of mathematics in the last century. He also co-authored many, many papers, and among mathematicians, to have an 'Erdos number' > 0 meant you had co-authored a paper with him. Once he died, the Erdos number was frozen, so, if the dead come back, any REAL mathematician would drop everything to write a paper and rush it to his grave, to increment his Erdos number. Fbomb the Second Coming and the Horsemen and all, this is IMPORTANT! :)